If you have tried every so-called healthy diet plan on the planet and
every exercise program from the latest fitness guru and repeatedly
failed to achieve your weight loss goals, you probably need a “healthy
diet check up...from the neck up.”
There's no such thing as a healthy, fast, weight loss diet plan.
Successful weight loss doesn’t just happen. It took more than a few
days to reach the point where you are at right now. Give yourself a
break and expect it to take awhile before you see measurable results.
Take a leap of faith and follow some basic principles in your diet plan.
Begin with your “self talk.” This is the conversation that runs through
your brain continuously. What kind of conversation do you have with
your self talk? What type of negative self talk has kept you from
reaching your weight loss goals in the past?
If you had a chance to do it over again, would you change the dialogue?
That’s a no-brainer isn’t it? Well, the good news is that you can turn
the tide of negative self talk beginning right now. It’s never too late
to begin and you start by reprogramming your self talk and beginning a
whole new weight loss diet plan.
A good starting point is to begin with positive affirmations. Positive
affirmations, spoken aloud with authority and belief, positively affect
your attitude, focuses your thinking and lead to a course of action
that will help you become the person you want to be and have the things
that you want to have.
Begin by writing your weight loss affirmations on paper. You can begin
with something like, “I want to lose 25 pounds before Christmas.”
That’s a worthy goal and attainable, but we need to put some work into
structuring the affirmation.
First of all, “I want” gives the impression that what you desire is
always in the future. In order to re-program your self talk, you need
to trick your mind into believing that you have already achieved weight
loss success. This is how your subconscious mind functions.
Your subconscious mind has no capacity for understanding the concept of
time. Everything is in the moment. . .here and now. When you tell your
subconscious mind that you “want”, that is exactly what you will get. .
.want. . .without ever achieving fulfillment. Unless you change your
mental tape recorder, you will achieve exactly what you are telling
your subconscious, that you “want to lose 25 pounds.” You will “want to
lose 25 pounds” for the rest of your days unless you change your self
talk.
If your weight is 150 pounds and you desire is to weight 125 pounds,
then you need to “be” 125 pounds from the moment you make the decision
to change your self talk. What if you write your affirmation to read
something like this: “I am healthy and fit, weighing 125 pounds.”
It is extremely important that your affirmation is crystal clear
because what you affirm is exactly what your subconscious mind will
bring you.
You needn’t limit yourself to one affirmation either. Write another one
that reflects your new exercise program. “I enjoy my healthy new diet
plan,” or, “I love the healthy foods I eat.”
Write and rewrite until you are absolutely certain that you have
written your weight loss goals “in the here and now” AND represent
precisely what you desire. Only then do you begin to speak it aloud and
do so several times a day.
Remember to use the present tense. “I acknowledge achievement in all my
weight loss goals.” “I have the skill and talent to exercise every
day.” “I am a winner.” “I am grateful for all of my accomplishments no
matter how small.”
At first you will feel awkward and uncomfortable and you may not feel
or believe what you are saying. It doesn’t matter, continue to speak
them aloud with as much conviction as you can muster. It’s taken a long
time to train your subconscious to use negative self talk. If you will
persevere with speaking your affirmations aloud, firmly and
confidently, you will be amazed at how quickly you can turn your
thoughts around.
You didn’t hop on a bicycle the first time and just take off down the
street. It took practice to train your body to balance on those two
wheels. This will take some practice as well. Continue to repeat your
affirmations aloud, several times a day for the next 30 days and you
will be amazed at how much you change your thinking and attitude.
Above all, take action. Do nothing and nothing gets done. Do something and many things are placed in motion.
Regardless of what you are doing in life, you need to take action. Do something every day to put your plan into motion.
